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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Emulation my friend.
I doubt most console gamers have enough of the know-how nor the desire to figure out how to emulate.
And before you say it’s easy: yes, for many that is often the case. But for an even greater amount of people all they want to do is install the game on their platform of choice and play. Too many hoops to jump through and the casual/technologically unmotivated audience loses motivation. And the minimum amount of hoops before that ends up being the case is smaller than you and I would probably hope for.
Plus things like emulating seem to be age bound. My niece could maybe figure it out. My nephew can barely use a computer. He can install anything. And will, no matter what it is or from where. He will also then never uninstall it cause he doesn’t know how. Tech literacy seems to be dying. Not just email and a browser. But actually doing nerdy things and knowing how to do things like emulate or rotate a pdf.
You're not wrong but that can be rectified. Back in the day, like half the population knew how to use Napster and then KaZaa and then Limewire and among those who didn't, enough people did that they just asked a friend